Italian Cruise Ship Captured by Terrorists

The Achille Lauro hijacking took place on 7 October 1985 when the Italian ocean liner MS Achille Lauro was hijacked by four men representing the Palestine Liberation Front PLO off the coast of Egypt as she was sailing from Alexandria to Ashdod IsraelA 69-year-old Jewish American man in a wheelchair Leon Klinghoffer was murdered by the hijackers and thrown overboard. The ship had just departed Alexandria Egypt on a pleasure cruise of the Mediterranean.

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